Daniel Bergin

Filmmaker and PBS producer/director Daniel Pierce Bergin creates media that explores diversity, history, and community through restorative storytelling. As a senior producer for Twin Cities PBS, Bergin has won more than a dozen regional Emmy awards with documentaries that offer new narratives on the region’s people, places, and past. As a filmmaker, his work has screened at the American Film Institute, the Walker Art Center, the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, and the Hollywood Black Film Festival. The University of Minnesota graduate has been an adjunct instructor and lecturer. Bergin has served on the board of directors for several community media organizations, has been a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellow, a City Pages Artist of the Year, an Aspen Institute Ideas Festival Fellow, and was awarded a Bush Leadership Fellowship for his work in community media.